[jadmin] Advertising xmpp

[Luke -Jr]

On Saturday 05 January 2008, Sander Devrieze wrote:
> /me pokes once more the XSF regarding standardize the use of one of
> these: Jabber/XMPP/Talk/something else

I don't think this is a good idea. Better to break the barrier that people are 
assuming of different services being incompatible. I stick to "standards 
compliant" and give examples like Jabber, Google Talk, Gizmo, etc.
Instead of e-mail address, should we be saying AOL vs SMTP address?

> > All the big IM systems people are used to are
> > closed, so there's probably an expectation that people on the same
> > IM system have an address that says what system they're on.

Not at all. AIM and Yahoo, at least, do not have any sort of indicator on 
their screen names. MSN also is not this way, since you can use any arbitrary 
email with it. (Put simply, NO SYSTEM has such an addressing schema)

> My main email address does not indicate it is an email address. People
> just call it "email address". We currently lack some similar naming
> like "email address" and this is a *big* issue (ping to XSF again).
> Which name we standardize as the official name of the "XMPP address"
> is not that important; the important thing is that we standardize some
> name and consistently use this to refer to "XMPP addresses" using this
> term. People should associate this term with the XMPP instant
> messaging technology, just like people today associate the term "email
> address" with SMTP addresses.

> 4) Instant messaging address/IM address/Chat address
> o Advantages
> ** clear and simple name that describes it very good
> ** good in different languages
> ** this name will help the adoption of XMPP for instant messaging as
> it is a predatory name (for closed chat systems)
> o Disadvantages
> ** it will take some time until the masses will not associate this
> name with closed chat systems any more: possible initial confusion

I have never heard any closed system use the term "IM address"

> ** maybe for some people too general

"IM address" works, but I do think there should be something more generic. 
After all, SMTP may one day be replaced with XMPP, and when I get around to 
it, I will probably be porting some games to use XMPP for server browsing and 
chat.